^My point isn’t that they can’t make any good points or find useful things from their experiences. I just don’t think being a Navy Seal really adds any real life expertise or credibility unless it somehow relates to shooting stuff. Again, for every Goggins you have a Navy Seal Commander Job Price blowing their brains out. Was Price not masculine enough?
I’m sure many athletes have written books that inspire people and somewhere someone will say the same thing about pop stars writing books or famous actors. I mean Tim Ferris seems to have a cult following like anybody that writes an inspirational book. The last time a bunch of people got all hyped op on David Goggins the forum got in full cheerleading mode and congratulated ACE on his way to running a DNF using the same idiotic advice. The reality is the book’s probably interesting, you can probably get a lot more mileage out of more common sense advice offered by someone who isn’t a freak athlete in a non-representative combat atmosphere. I mean that’s great that Goggins had that experience but achieving a series of athletic feats on talent isn’t going to really be useful life advice anymore than some guy with freakish IQ saying he got over his drug addiction by cramming for tests at the last minute and acing them. For every Goggins you have an “Ultra Marathon Man” book about another shameless self promoter who overcame his terrible personal problems and gave up the corporate life to do incredible endurance feats none of us could replicate and ultimately become an inspirational speaker. It’s inspiring and fun, but mostly just horsesh_i_t. Can people get something from it, probably, but people get something from anything, for reference see lady finds Jesus face in toast.
I’ll leave with this also written by Ed Hiner, a former Seal, but this time about something he might actually have expertise in:
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/military/guest-voices/sd-me-hiner-navyseal-suicide-20170615-story.html
"I don’t like it when something is exaggerated, so when I say that this country is facing an epidemic – even a train wreck – with its tip-of-the-spear veterans, I mean it.
I say this in the wake of two of my SEAL platoon mates from Coronado’ SEAL Team 5 killing themselves in the span of about six months, and another one in long-term inpatient care…
I believe that, just like the saturation diver profile, we must find some way to slowly transition these special warriors out of the service while keeping them tied to the brotherhood that they have lived in for most of their lives.
So anyone in the current administration who has any voice of authority, I hope you’re listening. We need to find a better way of helping our heroes come back to the surface of life."
The point being, these guys are equipped by the Navy for a lot of things and normal society is not one of them.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/18/special-forces-suicide-rates-hit-record-levels-cas/
"The suicide rates for U.S. military members who serve in special forces, like the Navy SEALs and the Army Rangers, have hit all-time highs, said Adm. William McRaven, the head of Special Operations Command.
The rate’s been high for two years, he said, Newsmax reported.
“And this year, I am afraid, we are on path to break that,” he went on at a conference in Tampa. “My soldiers have been fighting now for 12, 13 years in hard combat — hard combat — and anybody that has spent any time in this war has been changed by it. It’s that simple.”
He didn’t provide hard data for the suicide rate, but prior military statistics show that in 2012, more active duty service members died by their own hands — about 350 — than in combat, Newsmax reported. That trend seems to be showing the same for 2013, when 284 service members killed themselves between January and Dec. 15, 2013."
Maybe they all just need to harden the f up and read the Goggins book…